Comments posted by p4c970 from United Kingdom, September 19, 2004:
Utter bollocks. Infact, worse than that. So far have 12 coasters - great for a party! Will not burn, as I get "Cannot complete disc-at-once" on Nero after writing all data. I understand that the last 20% of the disc doesn't burn!!! How shite is that. DO NOT BUY THESE, THEY SUCK!

Comments posted by Daniel Powell from United Kingdom, July 28, 2004:
This media is fine for computers at 4x but you need to burn at x2 if you want to play on DVD player. My top of the range progressive scan sony dvd player did not like the 4x disc but no problems with 2x, many sleepless nights!

Comments posted by pagdorf from United Kingdom, July 19, 2004:
DO NOT BUY BULKPAQ! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY! The BULKPAQ ORANGE used to be the best discs money could buy I never had one coaster since I got my burner in Oct 2003 until today - The new ones are a brighter orange and they are a pile of S**T - Im just glad I didnt have enough cash on me for a pack of 100 - instead I only have 25 pieces of C**P - DO NOT BUY BULKPAQ! DO NOT BUY BULKPAQ! DO NOT BUY BULKPAQ! DO NOT BUY BULKPAQ! Am I getting through to you? DO NOT BUY BULKPAQ! DO NOT BUY BULKPAQ! DO NOT BUY BULKPAQ!

Comments posted by Drew from United Kingdom, July 16, 2004:
I've been using these for ages now, burnt about 150 discs and thought they were ok for the price. It's now come back and kicked me in the ass.

I just used to burn a disc on my liteon 411s, test it in my standalone dvd player and everything was cool. It's only now I'm finding a major fault in this media using both my 411s and my nec 2500-a.

I'm having a lot of bother copying a bulkpaq disc. It plays fine in my standalone but a hell of a lot aren't copying. I've been backing up 24 season 1 and 4 out of the 6 discs will not copy. I've been doing season 2 also but have recently switched to Ritek discs and they are fine apart from one episode.... Burnt on a Bulkpaq.

Bulkpaq seem to back up an original dvd disc fine but if you need to copy a copy, be prepared for fun!!

Comments posted by TrickyP from United Kingdom, June 03, 2004:
been buying for a while with good results the last 100 bought crap on all formats of data burned this is on a nec 1300a, pioneer 105 and 106 these disks are complete shite and total waste of money now. Bring back quality control

Comments posted by cyflyer from Cyprus, May 31, 2004:
Absolute crap. Absolute waste of time and money. Appears to play fine in standalone player until you get near the end when it pixelates and then packs up. Loads of coasters. Problem solved the moment I went to better media. Buy at your own risk. Don't say you were not warned !

Comments posted by Esko Eraser from Finland, May 22, 2004:
Bought 6 cakebox of these. 5 was good quality, but one was s*it. Excellent media, except that one box... scratches and strange spots that cannot be written. Works good in Schneider 2610 dvd-player.

Comments posted by steve6690 from United Kingdom, May 09, 2004:
Seem to burn movies ok using DVDSHRINK but unreliable playback in my Toshiba SD220-E. About 25% seem to freeze in places but the rest play perfectly. Using a NEC 2500 burner.

Comments posted by David Thornber from United Kingdom, April 19, 2004:
Bought a 25 pack, burned two coasters, read this website and now understand why, wish I hadn't parted with my cash and won't even be bothering with the remaining 23 discs.

The disks work fine up to about 80% capacity, but go beyond that and they wont even verify immediately after writing. Surprisingly, they will play back on my rather temperamental LG4210 DVD player provided you don't hit the dodgy area near the end of the disc, but I'm giving them a "doesn't work" rating because a full disc will not play back properly from start to finish.

Comments posted by skinned from United Kingdom, April 17, 2004:
Totally useless for Data burns on my NEC ND-2500a, every damn one comes out a coaster. Each one seems to go to shit about 3Gb. Tried using for film backups, can't be read on the NEC I burned them with but seems to be passable on my old standalone (it seems more tolerant of the errors) From the other comments here I think I may have got a bad batch. Guess it's BulkCRAP for this lot.

Comments posted by Adam from United Kingdom, April 13, 2004:
These discs are rubbish!
Fails to play in either of my two DVD players:
Toshiba SD200E or Shinco DVD-6868PS from China that plays everything else I've thrown at it.

Additional information:

Burnt with Lite-On SOHW-812S at 4x using firmware US01. Burning reliability is Good. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Poor. Media color is Orange. Media text is Bulkpaq Generation 4 4xspeed DVD-R. Media package type is Cake Box. Number of discs 25. Authoring/Burning comments:CloneDVD 2 Does not work on Shinco DVD 6868Does not work on Toshiba SD200E

Comments posted by Marcus from United States, April 07, 2004:
This medis works great on my Pioneer DVD-RW A106 Firmware V1.7 never had a beer mat with this media. Works fine with PS2, DVD Players the lot!

Comments posted by Scotia_uk from United Kingdom, April 03, 2004:
Complete crap. I bought 50 of these disks and EVERY single one freezes in any DVD player as soon as you go over 3 Gigs. Do not waste your money on this media, buy Ritek instead (only a couple of pounds more).

Comments posted by DREW from United Kingdom, April 01, 2004:
BUKPAQ ORANGE-FUCKING SHITE...SOON AS YOU GET OVER 3 GIG IT ALL GOES PEAR SHAPED, A LOAD OF CRAP, I NOW USE RITEK G04 NOT ONE COASTER.
BULKPAQ-UTTER SHITE.!!!!!. AND STILL HAVE 50 LEFT, ANYONE NEED SOME CLAY PIGEONS.?????.

Comments posted by RazzelDazzel from Sweden, March 26, 2004:
Bought 50 of these from ebuyer to start my DVD burning career. So far have burned about 30 of them with at 4x and 2x and all have burned with no problems. However playback is a bitch. Like many others I have now found out that they play back ok on any of my DVD players or my DVD Rom but if they are full or near full approx >3.5Gb. My PC hangs and my DVD players to a greater or lesser extent skip, hang and go pixilated. They seem to be better at 2x but not 100%. Interestingly if I play them back on the Pioneer DVR-106D burner on which they were origionally burnt they always seem to work fine. This led me to believe the problem was with the burner which I got replaced but alas the new one is exactly the same. So it looks like the problem is the media.

Comments posted by straliss440 from United Kingdom, March 13, 2004:
Originally had a couple of burns pixellating at end of film, but after reading a couple of threads on this site I burn files approaching 4.7 gig at 2x not 4x and have no problems. 4.4 gig files at 4x no problems.

Comments posted by Warder54 from United Kingdom, February 24, 2004:
Just got 1st batch. Lite-On 411s firmware FSOJ loves them! Clone DVD thinks they are 8 speed. Much better than the Datawrite Red v2 that only writes at 2x or 1x on this drive. Nero 6 also burns at 4 x.
Drive recognises DVD's in 5 Seconds.

Comments posted by ast from Sweden, February 22, 2004:
Burned 7 of these with 4x and 2x. Only one 2x burned disc can be read back without errors. Tried reading with the burner and other DVD-ROM drive. Errors start to kick in when about 75% of the disc has been read. Total waste of money.

Comments posted by Gareth from United Kingdom, February 21, 2004:
Bought Bulkpaq DVD-R 4.7Gb 4x Orange top, 25 pack in cake box from ebuyer.com hoping to use to burn DVD movies using my Sony DRU510A which I've upgraded to latest firmware version 1.0F. Every time I've tried to burn a DVD with them it fails right at the start of trying to write the lead-in with message "Power Calibration Error". Have tried writing at only x1 speed but makes no difference. Have done searches on web about this problem and found its a problem you get with cheaper discs and it appears to be a common problem with this particular brand. However, some have suggested they work OK with this drive when its at firmware version 1.0C so it could just be a problem with latest firmware. Returned the discs to ebuyer for full refund.

Comments posted by Nafis from United Kingdom, February 19, 2004:
Have had consistent problems at 4x and 2x speed using this media - plays generally fine on Optorite DD0401 but not in my Toshiba SD-210e dvd player - usually messes up near the end, but sometimes earlier. 8 DVDs tried.

Comments posted by w00kie from France, February 18, 2004:
using a Sony DRU-500A
video keeps skipping and freezing around the end of movies on my Pioneer DV-717 even when burnt at 1x (but I don't know if it's the media, the writer or the player's fault)

Additional information:

Burnt with Sony DRU-500A at 4x using firmware 2.0g. Burning reliability is Mixed. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Poor. Console reliability is Good. Media color is Orange. Media text is Bulkpaq Generation 4 / 4x Speed. Authoring/Burning comments:burns OK at 4x for data
kind of edgy with video, I burn at 2x for better playback Does not work on Pioneer DV-717

Comments posted by SickLittleMonkey from United Kingdom, February 17, 2004:
Drive doesn't like disks get the error : illegal medium, unable to start disc-at-once

Comments posted by harry from Netherlands, January 28, 2004:
Altho it says it burns at 4x speed i only got a succesful burn at 2x speed using Nero. When i put it in my yukai v300 (lol, but i got it for free ;)) it played fine for like an hour and than it starts skippin. And this gets worse as the end comes closer. I've burned exactly the same backup (size 4321 MB) on a Nashua 4.7 gb/120min/general use dvd-r at 4x speed without a problem and it plays perfect till the end in that same friggin yukai, so i'm pretty disappointed with bulkpaq so far. What's left for me to try is to burn at 1x speed and pray it plays on my standalone. That's not why i bought a 4x speed drive and dvd's. If you can not deliver reasonable quality an still put this crap on the market, than you are nothing but a crook. And i'm a stupid newbie who fell for it. ;) Cheers.

Comments posted by Andy Chape from Other, November 28, 2003:
Works great at 4x Speed. Only 1 or 2 unusable DVD's in early stages (only on the LG DV1000, but still worked on both the Cyberhome AD-L 528 and the Acoustic Solutions DVD321). After chosing to use Nero instead of my authoring software to burn problem was solved!

Comments posted by Keith from Other, November 26, 2003:
Burns good no coasters
but 20 out of 25 discs
produced
worked poorley on a mix of dvd playas
although i tested them on my own dvd playa
which is a panasonic dt100 and no problems
i had most of the film returned because of
freezing or blocks and screetching sound
Three different pcs all with pioneer 106
maybe the burners but i dont think so.
Tried all the films on my sanyo and big problems
Also got a free bush dvd playa and they work fine on that
most people are complaining though.

Comments posted by Maths Backman from Other, November 23, 2003:
Got my first and last pack (25) of this media, used 13 with 13 errors. I am hesitating in using the remaining 12, as if I do, I will not have a full dozen coasters for my coffee mugs. Totally rubbish, always fails to write during finalization, when disc pops out, trying it will allow DVD player to play for the first 10 minutess, then is hangs

Comments posted by Iain Attenborough from Other, November 11, 2003:
Burn Great on my Plextor 708A and play great on my Pioneer 106s and play perfectly on my JVC DVD Player. So far so good, not one problem.

Comments posted by bananaslik from Other, October 18, 2003:
have been using these discs for 2 months & only had one coaster(it was a read error copying on the fly)
My older dvd player (cyberhome 512)is a little bit touchy with these discs.

Burnt with Sony DRU-500A at 4x using firmware 2.0f. Burning reliability is Good. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Mixed. Console reliability is Good. Media color is Orange. Media text is bulkpaq gen4 4xspeed. Authoring/Burning comments:nero
record now Does not work on Sony DVP-NS900

Comments posted by tarantula from Other, September 27, 2003:
Did not burn on Mitsumi DW 7802 TE with original Firmware. When firmware flashed to herrie's 1.07v3, no problems occured. 4x burning not possible with Mitsumi, future firmwate might make it possible

Comments posted by tend0ll0r from Other, September 13, 2003:
I found some movies I burned did not playback correctly and skipped in PS2, some never even picked up, works fine with my Pioneer 606D (StandAlone).

Comments posted by Mark P from Other, July 24, 2003:
Great Discs.
Written 6 full discs at 4X with no noticable problems. Last discs I had were Datawrite red 4X which went in the bin one by one, didn't work for me. I'm so glad I now have a disc that works, I was near to giving up DVD writing!!

Have not tried playing on CPU or writing at any other speed as these work fine in my DVD player as they are. My dads Wharfedale M5 stutters on playback about an hour into the movie.

Price: $1 Purchased from: http://www.blankdiscshop.co.uk/ Date purchased: July 2003 Burnt with Sony DRU-500A using firmware 2.0f. Burning reliability is Poor. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Good. Media color is Orange. Media text is Bulkpaq 4x. Authoring/Burning comments:Nero and RecordNow Max
Tried burning at 4x with Nero (F/W was at 1.0g) and got write error at about 10%. Tried again at 2x and worked fine. Then tried another disk at 2x and failed write at about 10% again. Tried one more and burned fine at 2x. The next disk again failed at 2x at about 10% write.

Tried RecordNow Max at 2x and worked fine. The decided to update firmware to 2.0f. RecordNow Max failed at 2x and 4x everytime (write errored out at about the 10% region each time). Nero hasn't been able to get past 10% write at any speed (even 1x) again crapping out at 10% into the write process.

Nero is constantly giving a "Failed Disk at Once" everytime at 10% and RecordNow Max gives a generic error at the same position.

Either disks are bad or the Sony can't handle then. Previously only used Intenso DVD-R/+R and never had any issues. Works fine on Pioneer DV-525

Comments posted by Shepo from Other, June 26, 2003:
Media burns ok & plays ok on pc dvd rom & on my pioneer dvd ok, only had a little skip near the end of the film i burned.

Comments posted by kace from Other, May 03, 2003:
coasters
have bought 50 of them done ten films on 2 have came out ok
using a pioneer 105 at 99p ago not worth it
burns quick about 15 mins full disk
sorry but have forty left dont know wether to use them or sen them back

Comments posted by Killaraven from Other, April 26, 2003:
Tried to burn a movie .IMG three times on a Sony DRU-500AX with 2.0E firmware. Ones With Nero latest verson. Medium Speed Error arround 45% and burned on 2X.(looked like it burned almost to the end of the dvd) Second with Pinnacle CD/DVD suite. Also error(medium) arround 45%(looked like it burned almost to the end again) Last Try with 2.0F firmware (4X medium bugs fixed according to Sony)
around 55% (25 minutes) according to nero??
Hhen it started writing the leadout??? (after 55% it was 4.3 gigs I'm writing here)it resulted straight in an Error and a reboot... Same image with 2X Datawrite... no problems??? It seemed that the bulkpaq DVD was Burned almost to the end AGAIN???

Conclusion the Time that nero gave was not correct and does look like the DVD burned on 4X(more like 3X to me). Al three failures worked on a pioneer 106S but stuttered when the movie started. A Cyberhome C-512 read it, but could not read the end...... (ok none where burned correctly)... Be wary of this media before further testing on a Sony.... on the other hand.. the 2.0F firmware seemed to be improved

Comments posted by dave from Other, April 17, 2003:
I have just finished burning 25 and they played back on my Xbox fine with no freezing or glitching I have had no blow outs the only grudge with them is the Orange top side